 Hey guys welcome back to my YouTube channel this is Daniel Rosa here on to do a video today just showing some rigging, more rigging setups that I'm figuring out for the Femi Pam 2. This is the Femi Pam 2 I picked this thing up about one month ago, it's, I call it the poor man's DJI Osmo Pocket 2 but I actually picked it up over the Osmo Pocket for a couple of reasons. I didn't like the fact that the Osmo Pocket required smartphone activation, didn't see any reason why that should be the case. Also has a better battery life. So the low light performance is kind of bad but besides that I've actually really really really loved this little gadget I picked up. Now the reason I'm looking into these various rigging setups is because I want to start doing some interviews, I'm going to be shooting a video this week in which I interview someone. Now the internal microphone is, you can barely see it but you can see it, it's this little dot here just where my thumb is here. So if you think about that placement for the internal audio, so that is actually a sensible place to put the internal microphone for the intended use case, the intended default use case of this. So if I'm shooting a video like this I'm going to just take my Ulanzi MT-34, let's just pretend in a weird way that this is an interview subject. So I'm going to be shooting like this and it'll be capturing audio very well from me in the background. Let's just put my tripod here again but it's not going to be capturing audio very well from the subject because it's on the wrong side of the microphone. Presumably this is some kind of a directional microphone, again where that little pin is so it's working here for me, not great audio capture here. If I do selfie mode, you're going to see me in my ridiculous hoodie now, then again this is sensible because it's going to be picking up audio coming in from me as I'm speaking to the camera but it's not going to be picking up audio from that direction. So these are not really, this isn't a great mic placement for an interview. Now what I'm trying to do at the moment is develop this kind of lightweight kit. I bring this Satchel around with me everywhere I go essentially and I'm trying to create a rig that's going to just be really really lightweight and portable. So this Ulanzi MT-34 is an absolutely brilliant gadget. I've talked about it before. It's great because it's so versatile and on the one hand you can, it's got these tripod legs. This is not a promo, this is literally just my favorite camera accessory I'd say at the moment. It's got a tripod leg that'll sit down, it's got a ball bearing so that you can put this wherever you want it. It's got a little quarter inch head at the top which means you can put lights on it, you can put cameras on it, you can put microphones on it. It's got a little thumb operated wheel for very easily tightening and loosening and the best part is that it is also telescopic so you can get some height on it and you can also even use it as a handheld kind of monopod slash selfie stick thing. So really really useful piece of gear. Now this to me is a great thing. Let's say I'm interviewing somebody at a restaurant. I've actually got this camera on another Ulanzi MT-34 so I'm just going to pan up a bit. Let's say I'm interviewing somebody at a restaurant and I want to set the rig so what I can do, what I'm planning on doing tomorrow, what I'm doing exactly this, I'm going to position an MT-34 on the table, just going to give it a bit of height and then I'm going to try to figure right away to get this, to get my Femme Pam 2 working. Okay, so in order to get accessories on to the Femme Pam 2 there's a couple of options and that's what I wanted to show in this video. Now firstly just to digress a tiny bit, this is the other thing I'm using in my bag. It's a kind of weird setup admittedly. It's one of these really really small Ulanzi lights and one of these UU rig which is also Ulanzi, it's a handheld gripping mechanism. So this is my kind of versatile go-to light and again I'm using these two pieces together just because it's really small and you can literally slap this in your pocket and any time you're shooting a night time you need to throw some light on something you can just whip this guy out. So anyway, getting back to the main thing. So okay, here's my MT-34, here's my pocket. Now if I want to rig up, let's say an external microphone for the purpose of recording an interview, okay? So this is a ceramonic shotgun microphone. So one, two options really that I've worked with so far in terms of rigging, one of them is to use an L-bracket. Now an L-bracket is something that has a quarter in systems, a little bit beat up but it still does the job. It has a quarter inch at the base, then it locks in here and then you can go like this at the back and you've got two cold shoe attachments. You can see that there is one cold shoe here and there's one cold shoe here. So that's one option and the second option I'm going to show is using something like this. This is one of these horizontal brackets and it's got a quarter inch here. It comes out a couple of inches and then it's got another screw and quarter inch here and it's got a three cold shoes around this. So I'm going to do both. So if I'm going to go for this one, I'm just going to make sure I'm in frame. So I'm going to firstly set up my MT-34, get it up to height. Then I'm going to just screw into the MT-34 on my horizontal. That is reasonably secure. Make sure it's tightened all the way. Then I'm going to position my MT-34. Now the MT-34 has a quarter inch at the bottom. So what I can do is just connect it. It's kind of a little bit tricky to hold this all together. But you can do this once and then you're set up for the shot. And I don't know, over tighten it so I'm just going to give it up to here. So now I've got the Fimi PAM-2 sitting on top of the MT-34. Now I need to adjust the ball bearing. You can see it's a little bit off. There we go. It's pretty much on the vertical now. And I've got that sitting on the tripod. And then I can of course just move this guy. If I want to go up in the air, I can go up in the air. If I want to reduce the height, I can go down like this. And if I turn on the actual Fimi, now this is shooting in regular mode. So I'd actually need to have it like this. But there we go. Now what I can do is use my cold shoes in order to add accessories. I'm just going to go ahead now and attach my camera like this. Just need to screw it in. I always get this wrong. There we go. Just a bit in. Now this guy's a little bit loose. I need to tighten this too. That should be about right. And then the microphone slot or the 3.5mm is just on the other side. That tiny bit. There we go. So that's the setup there. I have my microphone, a shotgun microphone. I'm just going to power it on. It's a battery powered one. That's going around the back. You just have to make sure that that's not in the shot. And then I've got my rig there. And if I wanted to do this whole thing in selfie mode, I could just swivel around the camera and have that from the side. This is how this looks from the back. So you can see the gimbal is moving, shooting into this direction. Audio pickup also in this direction. So this is different than the default. Because if you think about the default configuration, let's say I'm interviewing somebody here. It's going to be picking up audio from this direction. So it'll get me asking the questions, but it will not get the person responding audio very well. This overcomes that because the microphone is facing out where we wanted to face. So that's number one. And you can just build upon this setup. If you want to connect a light to it, then you could simply connect a light to it. Ah, it's on the... Just for the purposes of this demo, I'm going to just unfasten this guy. Loosen up a bit. Stick the light in the side here. This is a really, really small light. You can definitely get a bigger one. And there we go. Oops, that's on the flashing mode. Now it's on the regular mode. So now I've got a light on this cold shoe, microphone on this cold shoe. I've actually still got one more cold shoe to play around with. Just let me show you guys how this looks from the other direction. Femi here, microphone here, light here, one spare cold shoe here. And I can, of course, be more adventurous. You can get these kind of things that will stick into a cold shoe and have two ball bearings. You can have the light exactly. You can have the light out a little bit, et cetera. You can do more with it than this. Now, another option, I'm going to just turn the light off here and turn off the battery. Another option you can use is, I'm really excited to be used. I haven't done a ton of stuff with it yet, but this is the TrackShot microphone by Comica. I got it because I think it's a really interesting concept in that it's got two microphones and one can swivel backwards. You could also have this mounted as a microphone up the top here. And you could have it set in this really, really weird-looking mode, but you're going to have one audio capture from both front and back equally because it's got two different arms. I think that's it. No, no, no. I wanted to also show the, so I'm just going to go ahead and turn it off the gear here. I wanted to show this option as well as a configuration. So let me just kind of derig this. I don't know if that's actually a word, so you can see where it's connected here. Firstly, I'm going to just take the Fimi off. So this is, you know, it's tiny bit cumbersome to get this set up and deset up every single time, but this thing fortunately does really compact nicely, so this will kind of move back there. So this isn't a big amount of gear to get in your bag. The microphone isn't particularly big. You could use a much more compact shotgun microphone as well, and the light and the fixtures are pretty tiny. So definitely quite portable. So let's go again, start from scratch, taking out Yulanzi M234 as our starting point for this rig. Now what I'm going to do here is screw in, and I'm just going to make sure that this is positioned to leave enough room for the Fimi to stand on here, so, and get the accessories in. So I'm going to go and tighten about here. Whoops, that was not connecting. So you just have to just try this. I think we're good. Yep, all right, that's pretty well connected. Now we're going to screw in the Fimi. I won't say that's going to make that joint a lot more solid. So this is one option. I can kind of go off to the side with it. I could also have it. I'm just going to turn this on for a second, facing outward so I can go off to the side with it. And then I can again, just going to take off the microphone here for a second. I can build out pretty much the same rig as I did before by putting this guy into the coleshoe at the top. This is my microphone, of course. And again, just running the 3.5 mil around the back connecting in. And you can see, well, actually, I'm in, nope, yeah, I'm in not in video mode. It's going to say if I go into microphone mode, now you have to be careful when you're adjusting the ball bearing because it's taking the whole load of everything above it. And just a tiny bit off-center there. If you had something like the spirit level, I'm sure you could get this exactly correct. And you can see everything sitting. And again, I can just add, let's say I want to add my light in here. I'm going to put that guy in. Whoops, need to give it a bit more room. And then just tighten using my thumb. Now the tripod is definitely struggling to maintain center, so I'm going to loosen carefully and tighten up again here. That looks to me a bit better. So you can see now, again, I have my light, I have my microphone, and I have my feme. And because there's a bit of horizontal clearance here, I've actually got enough room that I can manipulate the camera and shoot, let's say, an interview. So that's pretty good. I'm going to just finish this video off by showing you guys. Again, what this looks like when I swivel around here. Carefully moving in. You can see the amount I have here. Again, I have my microphone, I have my light on the albracus, and I have the feme in the center. And this will allow me, again, to, if I was shooting an interview, I can throw some light on the subject. I can capture audio from directly in front of them, and I can use the feme as my camera to record this on.